* Britain’s biggest examination board has been forced to change this year’s English and English literature GCSE exam after some papers were stolen from a Parcelforce van.
The AQA board has replaced 1.5 million papers, sat by 500,000 students, at a cost of pound;250,000 after the theft from a van, which was believed to be delivering the papers to a west Midlands school.
The board also had to replace GCSE modular science papers, taken by 265,000 candidates, after a school reported that one paper was missing from a pack of 20 which it had been sent.